Malik Willis is ‘undervalued’, could be QB1 this season
Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Hayden Winks is joined by Jakob Sanderson and Sam Sherman to explain why the Dolphins quarterback could be worth a late-round pick in your fantasy drafts. Check out the full conversation on "Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
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Cool, I'm gonna stick with the quarterback theme here and talk about another Konami Code quarterback that I think is being undervalued.
Malik Willis, I think is gonna finish as a QB one this year.
He's currently being drafted in Yahoo Leagues, at least as the quarterback 19.
I just I first wanted to start with, like, the incredible rushing, you know, floor and ceiling that Willis provides you in fantasy.
This is a small sample, but his, his four, you know, career starts the past It's not four career starts, but four starts with the Packers, the past couple seasons.
He went six for 41, six for 73 and a touchdown, 10 for 44, nine for 60 and two touchdowns.
So he's adding anywhere from four or five points, so touchdown, to 18, 20 points on the ground purely from rushing.
And I think, like, this one honestly is, like, a little bit psychological where, like, the, the type of fantasy analyst who would be, caping for Malik Willis has been emotionally scarred by the Justin Fields experience, by the Trey Lance experience.
Like, these, these type of analysts are, like, scared of Willis.
They're like, "Oh, he's gonna get benched.
It's not gonna work.
Like, I'm done with a, you know, quarterback who can't throw and he can only rush."
So I think that's, like, really suppressing his ADP.
And I, I'm going way back here for an historical example.
Like, I think in some people's heads, like, Malik Willis is as bad of a passer as, like, Tim Tebow.
Well, Tim Tebow, you know, way back in 2011 when he was the starter for the Broncos, averaged 17 points per game, and that would've been equivalent to the quarterback 16 this year.
I, I think Malik Willis is a better thrower than Tim Tebow.
I don't think that's a hot take.
If you watched him this past couple seasons, I think you have to at least acknowledge his ceiling is, is higher as a passer.
So I'm gonna just, like, bank the rushing floor.
And what if he's as good throwing the ball as he was, the Packers the past couple seasons?
I also think, like, the receiving corp, yeah, it's, it's terrible, but I do think having Davon Achane there as a pass catcher is, like, a little bit underrated.
He's an awesome weapon out of the backfield and is almost used as a slot receiver, type, type player in certain formations.
The same, some of the same, offensive coaching staff that used Achane there last year in Miami, so I don't think that's going away.
So anyways, I, I, I totally get how it, it can fail.
Willis, you know, doesn't have good wide receivers.
He's a very small sample, you know, success as a quarterback.
But I'm shooting for the ceiling with a Konami Code rusher, and if it hits, he can, like, crush the guys that are going near him, and even the guys that are going ahead of him, Stafford, Goff, Jordan Love, et cetera.
These guys don't have anything close to the rushing ceiling that Willis provides.
So I, I'm taking a lot of stabs on him this year.
